Opening of schools: Motshekga awaits Cabinet approval for ‘consensus position’

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. Picture: Bongani Shilunane/African News Agency

According to Christians, education experts and scientists said children’s susceptibility to Covid-19 is low, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation also supports opening schools. EFF MP Seneanye Lehihi said: “We stand here today as the EFF to demand that all schools remain closed.”She said schools were closed when there were a few cases – now, as the country is told to brace for the storm, with the peak expected in August or September, schools are opened.

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